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Cents and Sociability: Household Income and Social Capital in Rural Tanzania*
Deepa Narayan,Lant Pritchett +1 more
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In this paper, the authors show that associational relationships and social norms of villages in rural Tanzania are both capital and social, and that a village's social capital has an effect on the incomes of the households in that village, an effect that is empirically large, definitely social and plausibly causal.Abstract:
In this article we show that associational relationships and social norms of villages in rural Tanzania are both capital and social. After outlining the various concepts of social capital we tell how and why we created data on social capital using a large-scale household survey in rural Tanzania that was designed to query households about their social connections and attitudes. By using the Social Capital and Poverty Survey (SCPS) and data from a different survey, which also had information on incomes, we show that a village’s social capital has an effect on the incomes of the households in that village, an effect that is empirically large, definitely social, and plausibly causal. Finally, we use the two data sets to examine a number of proximate channels through which social capital appears to operate.read more
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“Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital”
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